1. How would you describe what an effective‚ sound argument is? Refer to how a speaker or a writer gives a good reason for the audience to believe the argument is true. 2. What is rhetoric? It is the art of persuasive writing and the use of figures speech and compositional method. Define the three major rhetorical appeals? Ethos – is a plea to ethics and the means of convincing somebody of the personality. Pathos – is a plea to emotion and a way of persuading spectators of an argument through making
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How it all comes together 1 Understanding how fallacies‚ critical thinking and decision making techniques are all linked together. What is a logical fallacy? According to the Webster dictionary (1996)‚ a fallacy is a false notion. A statement or argument based on a false or invalid inference. Fallacies can be divided into two different groups; the first one is the fallacy of relevance where the premises are irrelevant to the outcome. The other is fallacy of insufficient evidence‚ where the
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I do not find any of the traditional proofs for God’s existence persuasive‚ and I will go over each argument one at a time to explain why I do not find them persuasive‚ starting with Anselm’s ontological argument‚ then Aquinas’ cosmological argument‚ and finally Paley’s teleological argument. First‚ Anselm’s ontological argument is not persuasive because the argument can be used to prove things that do not exist. The faulty logic is shown in Gaunilo’s Lost Island Objection because instead of putting
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red herring fallacy to illustrate how people often throw arguments off course by raising an irrelevant issue. During an argument between Putman and Proctor‚ Miller writes‚ “I [Putman] never heard you so worried about society‚ Mr. Proctor. I do not think I saw you at Sabbath meeting since snow flew” (Miller I. 28). Miller shows how Putman effectively derails the conversation‚ preventing the other people from continuing to talk about witchcraft. Miller’s use of the red herring fallacy helps to develop
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The Written Process Kimberly Williams COM/105 11/07/2012 University of Phoenix The Written Process * Consider how the writing process you read about in this class differs from the process you have used in the past. What specifically have you done in the past compared to what you have read about this week? A lot of the writing process that I read about in this class is different in some ways from what I am used to and in other ways do not use contractions or informal language in academic
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In this expository essay I have written in response to the prompt that suggests that the ways in which we connect to a place are influenced by events and experiences. I have chosen to explore both negative and positive events and experiences as well as how they have an impact on an individuals perception of a particular place. ‘Tirra Lirra by the River’ by Australian author Jessica Anderson has been used to show how positives in life can connect you to a location and make you feel as though you belong
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about fallacies. In our powerpoint presentation‚ it says that each generation is to learn these fallacies. This tale of the college students and the teaching of fallacies was in a much different generation than we are in now. Some fallacies I learned of in this story that were different from the ones stated in my course text were‚ Dicto Simpliciter‚ Contradictory Premises‚ Ad Misericoriam‚ Hypothesis Contrary to Fact‚ and Poisoning the Well. The Dicto Simpliciter Fallacy is and argument based on
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Although Europeans were beginning to spread their influence throughout the entire globe‚ not one country’s expansion has been so written about and debated over more frequently than North America‚ more specifically‚ the future United States. Every individual’s trip across the ocean‚ from one coast to another‚ would be either directly or indirectly influenced by maps that John Smith (and other explorers of that epoch) drew (and had commissioned in different parts of the world.) It is now well known
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ENC 101 Written Assignment 1 Throughout high school‚ English was never my favorite subject. It seemed bland and dull to me and I thought that whatever career I chose would have more to do with mathematics and sciences. So when I enlisted into the U.S. Army and eventually achieved the rank of Sergeant‚ I discovered that writing was one of the most important factors of my everyday life. Now there are many different forms and memorandums that write on a weekly basis‚ but if I had to choose one
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ourselves why? We never know to what extent technology can be used; surveillance‚ gathering information‚ maybe even a tracker. We don’t ask the most essential questions‚ who’s to say we aren’t already being “watched”. George Orwell‚ the writer of the novel 1984 thought this way; in the novel technology is used to keep everyone in line to make them obey “big brother” (the government). The Technology described in the novel is like the technology used today‚ we should feel uneasy about this. 1984 is a novel
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